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Origami Kits -- a Crafty Weekends Review & Link Party

Disclosure: Tuttle Publishing sent me these kits in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Wow, where did this week go? It has been very crazy here. What about with you? Tonight we are sharing three fun origami kits. With dragons, animals, and a city, there is a little something for everyone. We will start with Flying Dragons Paper Airplane Kit by Sam Ita and Paul Frasco.

Holiday Stroll--Happy Family Times #36


Have you done something fun with your family this past week? Kelly from Happy Whimsical Hearts and I would love to hear about it. We are collecting different family activities to inspire us all to have more time with our own families. Please share yours below and visit some of the others to get new ideas of things to do.
Ready to go to the stroll.
This weekend our town held its Annual Holiday Stroll. The schools and many churches have different events at them--mostly on Saturday. We went to check out three of the four elementary schools in town. The first offered a Breakfast with Santa which we caught the tail end of. Right when we walked in the door we saw Santa and Hazel got her picture taken, but we won't get it until Wednesday. She however was a big girl and sat on Santa's lap for the first time. I had to walk her over, but she did sit on his lap and had fun. 

Then we went to check out the crafts and what not. Hazel wrote a letter to Santa which she put in her magic mailbox and she heard back from him already. Then she got her face painted.
Next we went to the school Daddy had gone to as a child. There we had lunch and then Hazel made a sand art.
Then she made a felt mouse candy cane holder. They didn't give candy canes with it though.
Then we checked out the craft fair and of course Santa followed us there and was posing for pictures again. We didn't do it twice in one day though. Steve and Hazel stopped to buy a soldier some socks and send a note and then Hazel and I picked out an ornament where the money went to support the K-9 unit at the police department. Sorry for the blurry picture.
Then we went to the third school. By this time we were getting a bit tired. Santa was there as well. He just seemed to keep following us. I was hoping Hazel wouldn't ask how he could be at all three schools like she did about the malls a few weeks ago. Here she decorated a gingerbread man. Sorry I got the picture after she started snacking on him.
Then she decorated a wooden ornament. She chose a penguin frame ornament.
While she and Steve decorated these I checked out the crafts. We bought some cookies from the PTO and then went home to rest. Hazel had the best time and we decided it was a fun annual event to do. We liked supporting the underfunded schools and just getting out as a family. Maybe next year we will plan it better and actually make it to the Breakfast with Santa for breakfast.


Now it is your turn to share how your family has spent some quality time lately.


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Happy Family Times #25--Founders' Day


Oh, I just visited all the wonderful posts shared last week for Happy Family Times. Wow, there were so many great, inspiring ideas. I know I have some great plans in my head now. If you have done something with your family this week and posted about it, please share it with us below. Kelly at Happy Whimsical Hearts and I are collecting them in hopes to inspire all of us to do more with our families!

This week our town held its annual Founders' Day. It is a day where the streets in the center of town are closed and every non-profit group, some businesses and some crafters and vendors take over and sell, giveaway and entertain. It is a fun day. Part of the street is full of blow-up games like bouncy houses, one side street is filled with food (mostly donated from local restaurants for school groups to raise funds). Then all around town hall and the library are crafts and vendors as well as all the community groups. The Friends of the Public Library often hold a book sale and the library bathrooms are open for the day. Overall it is a fun day but it can be hot and tiring. We park at a friend's house and walk a short distance to get there. Hazel loves it and remembered it from last year.
Hazel enjoyed making an apple basket craft at the Lakeshore Learning table, a bracelet with the help of a girl scout, a wooden race car at the Home Depot (with lots of help from Daddy). She also got to see Elmo. We entered lots of free raffles and got lots of hand-outs including bubble stuff, lots of reusable bags, pens, pencils, a plastic sand castle, and it goes on. We stopped at a local church for some ice cream. Then on our way to the car we stopped at the Iron Works where they had an iron pour and some old fashion toys including the stilts you see Hazel trying with Daddy's help.
The iron pour was really interesting. First you are given a hard sand mold that you can carve a design into. They do tell you all letters and numbers need to be backwards and so do words. Then you bring it over to them and they spray it with graphite. Then they get the fire going nice and hot. They are burning what they called coke which is a processed fuel (for more info check out here). The sparks and then some of the metal came out the side of the burner. They said this meant it was almost time to pour. Then they knocked out the cooled lava to get the liquid to pour into cement buckets and then they put them into smaller more controlled buckets to pour into all the molds. Then after some cooling has taken place they spray them with water to cool them further. After that they will knock the molds off the platform and placed more in their spots. At this point we went home and came back to get Hazel's metal sculpture. It was fun. She was not all that into it since it was hard and a long process. Next year she might enjoy it more.



Now it is your turn to share how your family has spent some quality time lately.


~ please link up (family time oriented giveaways are ok, but please no Etsy shops)
~just crafts will be deleted since this is to share family times ~ use our button so others can join the fun


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~ we'd love for you to follow us Crafty Moms Share and Happy Whimsical Hearts
~ check out our Happy Family Times Pinterest board where we will be pinning some of our favorite ideas



Ok, now for our PARTY!! Please share your FUN Family Times!!